completely honest…Betterhelp Hec… review of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better help and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you wait for your therapist to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really practical and really available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Hec
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so